Que me toquen Las golondrinas!

zonambulo13 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:31:49 +0000

Ahora llego el tiempo de la despedida. Guadalajara leaves us with many memories. We had a great time meeting people and walking around such a beautiful city! We wish we could stay, but Colin needs to go back to Michigan to continue dropping some knowledge to the kids and Daniel needs to go see his family in Zacatecas. Seeing so many of our friends from Los Angeles having so much fun was like being in some sort of retreat. It makes us little sad but we’re leaving happy with such an awesome experience!

Colin “El Gunckel” o “El malévalo Dr. Gunckel” y Daniel “Hound-dog”

FIN?

ANGELENOS!

If you have any pictures or would like to contine blogging about your stay while we’re gone, email Danny at danny at printgonzalez.com

An incident next to La rotunda de los hombres ilustres…

zonambulo13 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:10:42 +0000

We got bottles and we know how to use them, mothefuhkeh!

On our way to 7-11 late last night we nearly got jumped. Unos vatos got out of a car and started talking shit. But we busted a classic LA move – keep on walking and no hacerles caso. Honestly I was more confused by a dude in white pants spouting “cholo” nonsense: “Ahora si güey! Dame el cel! A donde vas, güey?! Vente aqui!” By the way, why they wanna mess with two intimidating fellows like ourselves? Just to be safe, we bought a couple of thick coke bottles and emptied them out, no más para estar listos pa’l pedo.

…and after the concert. Pos ni pregunten que sigue!

zonambulo13 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:41:09 +0000

Vexing Concert at the MUSA: Las Tres y Lysa Flores

zonambulo13 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:27:38 +0000

After two years of working on this project, and spilling copious amounts of blood, sweat and beers over this exhibition – I could think of no better culmination than introducing Las Tres (menos una). Alice and Teresa are the heart of our show, and having them here in Guadalajara has been an amazing experience. It reminded me why I agreed to co-curate this exhibition in the first place. Both women played songs they composed as Las Tres, and a few from their respective careers. My hands down favorite was a “machup” of “High School” and “We Don’t Need the English.” At one point The Sirens lifted Colin para un poco de crowd surfing. A special shout out to whoever was keeping my ass in the air. Also, Lysa Flores, made an appearance on stage to sing along with Las Tres followed by her set with some family history. Apparently, Lisa’s family is from Guadalajara and this was her first time performing here.

Vexing Concert at MUSA: The Sirens

zonambulo13 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:46:55 +0000

Off to a weird start! A Corvette crashed into the side of the museum during the set-up for the concert! First up were the Sirens! I swear they get better every time I hear them. And the young folks totally dug them. Between the radio coverage and myspace, the audience knew lots of the songs and even put in some requests. After a blazing set (those ladies are powerful!!!) they blew everyone away with an encore – “Oh Bondage! Up Yours!” ¡Que vivan Los Esirens! Later laters The Sirens asked Colin for words of wisdom, life advice. A dubious prospect, to be certain. But they just gotta keep doing what they do and loving it. Punto.

One last hoorah!

zonambulo13 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:29:04 +0000

This is the ladies’ first day in Guadalajara and for some of them, their first time. So we decided to take them on an excursion out to see the city before their sound check for the concert this evening. We decided to take them to the Tianguis cultural at Parque Agua Azul. It was a beautiful afternoon and we had a good time looking through the different booths. I know some them scored and bought some vintage comic books! After that we headed to MUSA to set up for the concert.

¡Que siga el pari, dude!

zonambulo13 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:10:40 +0000

After the opening, we hit the after party at a local punk club called Pulp Bar. We squeezed in there como sardinas (yet again) and got our drank on. Felicidades, dancing, charla – había de todo. As Pulp is owned by a punkera, she asked all of the Vexing ladies to sign the restroom walls. Ya son parte de la historia oficial. Needless to say, we’re all still feeling the love and trying to muster just a few more ounces of energy for the concert tonight!

VEXING!…opening night

zonambulo13 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:34:16 +0000

The moment finally came. The ladies arrived, our muses, our raison de etre… after a 3 hour delay at LAX!!! After some freshening up and a quick trip to the 7-11 for snacks (delicacies that included Bubulubu, Monchiz and Principe cookies), we hit the opening with guns blazing. Antonio Villaraigosa was present to give tours to interested visitors (hum-heh-huh… it’s…). And he confirmed the rumors – he did go to high school with the cats from Asco (somebody tape him to a wall!). Unfortunately, there were definitely some fuchi faces and snide comments about the show. But you know what? We did it for the KIDS, so whatevers! And they came in droves. We had so many great conversations with young Guadalajara artists and punketeros, and they were very excited to meet Alice, Teresa, Yolanda and the rest of our entourage. There was a definite shortage of champagne (or anything else) since it was obviously reserved for the wing-tip shoe club of Guadalajara. So Alice had to amuse herself by asking all passersby to touch her “panocha.” Just watch the video after you put the kids to bed.

From our correspondents at Hotel La Victoria!

zonambulo13 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:32:06 +0000

Artist Shizu Saldamando and Marco Sanchez, sent us these pics to upload to the blog. Thanks!!!

and now for some book shopping

zonambulo13 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:32:00 +0000

We just got back from doing a bit of book shopping around town. Although the easiest bookstores to find are the Gonvill chain bookstores scattered throughout Guadalajara’s Centro Historico, we opted to locate local independent vendors and book distributors. Our journey began after a quick and disappointing breakfast at Sanborns and then we were off. First stop was tracking an awesome street graphic we saw when we for a walk after installing Vexing at MUSA. We found it and snapped a few of it. Next we went down Ave. Lopez Cotilla to Ocampo and started looking for bookstores. The first bookstore, the oldest one in the city according to them, La Fuente (Contreras Medellin 140), didn’t have anything that interested us but was well lit and clean. The next bookstore we visited, Libreria Romo (Lopez Cotilla 667), I picked a couple of story books for presents. Following that, we came across El Desván de Don Quijote (Lopez Cotilla 813), was more fruitful. Colin found a book about the history of fresas (complete with a “Fresometer” to determine your level of fresitude). The staff was really friendly, Artemio y La Cherry helped us locate a nearby record store called Roxy and Roll (Juan Manuel no 747). After picking up a few vinyls, we headed there and found all sorts of crazy records. Loads and loads of rarities, especially Mexican rock. Colin dirtied his paws and emptied his pockets. We’re now back at the De Mendoza getting ready for tonight’s opening of Vexing!